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One interesting thing I notice about ZYL is that she's very friendly with a lot of the other staff. She was giving hugs to all the linesmen and service judge. She was hugging and taking pictures with a lot of the photographers and reporters.

One interesting thing I notice about ZYL is that she's very friendly with a lot of the other staff. She was giving hugs to all the linesmen and service judge. She was hugging and taking pictures with a lot of the photographers and reporters.

I supposed that's why she is also into politics, being diplomatic, tactful, it comes naturally to her, a woman of substance and intelligence.

Two tournaments within two consecutive weeks with participation in one discipline seems to be the safe max. Make the participation into two disciplines, then you increase the probability of overtaxing your body, in particular if you are able to stay until much later stages in both camps, not just a happy goers of one or two first rounds.

Zhao Yunlei may just be a good example of overtaxing the body and its consequences.

Absolutely, Zhao Yunlei's award as the best female player of the year is long,long overdue - in my book, she is one of the greatest doubles player of all time already.

I was actually toying with the idea that had she started as a singles player instead, with her intelligence, self-assertiveness, supreme confidence and steady character coupled with her tact and diplomacy - she might well become one of the all-time great women's singles player, possibly possessing all of Li Xuerui's strengths and none of her weaknesses which is mainly only one, that is her tendency to self-destruct under extreme self-induced pressure when burdened by the need to perform up to expectations in a major championship. But that's just wishful thinking, a counterfactual proposition on my part.